A pilot study in non-human primates shows no adverse response to intravenous injection of quantum dots

Quantum dots have been used in biomedical research for imaging1, 2, diagnostics3, 4 and sensing purposes5, 6. However, concerns over the cytotoxicity of their heavy metal constituents7, 8 and conflicting results from in vitro7, 9 and small animal10, 11, 12, 13, 14 toxicity studies have limited their...

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Main Authors: Ye, Ling, Yong, Ken-Tye, Liu, Liwei, Roy, Indrajit, Hu, Rui, Zhu, Jing, Cai, Hongxing, Law, Wing-Cheung, Liu, Jianwei, Wang, Kai, Liu, Jing, Liu, Yaqian, Hu, Yazhuo, Zhang, Xihe, Swihart, Mark T., Prasad, Paras N.
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97385
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10626
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English